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Data Source and Methods: Mail/web/telephone survey of directors of adult day care services centers and residential care communities, Administrative data from the CMS on nursing homes and residents, home health agencies and patients, and hospices and patients

Provider Surveys

Data Source and Methods: Inpatient records from a national sample of non-Federal short stay hospitals; electronic data files from commercial organizations, State data systems, hospitals, or hospital associations.

Selected Data Items:

Characteristics of inpatients discharged from non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States, including age, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, and expected sources of payment

Data Source and Methods: Personal interviews with facility administrators and designated staff who used administrative records to answer questions about the facilities, staff, services and programs, and medical records to answer questions about the residents.

Selected Data Items:

Basic information about nursing homes, the services provided, their staff, and their residents

Data Source and Methods: In-person interviews with agency directors and their designated staffs; no interviews were conducted directly with patients or their families/friends.

Selected Data Items:

Agency data including information on the year an agency was established, the types of services an agency provided, referral sources, specialty programs, and staffing characteristics.

Home health patients and hospice discharges data including age, sex, race and ethnicity, services received, length of time since admission, diagnoses, medications taken, advance directives, and many other items.

Data Source and Methods: In-person interviews were conducted with residential care administrators and caregivers and staffs. To obtain resident characteristics, three to six residents (based on facility size) were randomly selected to participate in the survey. Interviews were not conducted with residents.